Machine for cleaning hair and other filamentary material



April 24, 1928';-

' C. H. DONNER.

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ATTORN EYS April 24, 1928.

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-ATI.ORNEYS Patented Apr. 24, 1928.

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A pplicationfiled'aMay 19,

This invention relates, generally, to ime provements 1n machines f'orjcleanmg, hair and other filamentary material; andthemvention has reference, more-particularly, to.

5 a continuously o1)erating;inz1.chineadapted to receive the material to be cleaned, subject the same to a. cleaning operation, and progressively discharge the cleaned material out,

of the machine. The inventionhas for its. to provide a verysimple but highly'eflicient mechanism for the continuous treatment of hair, such asis used in the manufacture of hat and other felts, orgenerally for the 5 treatment of any other kind of filamentary material, whereby'dirt,rsliortsand? otherundesirable similar elements whichmay be contained therein, may 'be quicklyand rap-- idly removed therefrom, andithemachmel's 2o soconstructedand arranged'aszto'be contin uously operating, 1: e. so that thematenal may be continuously fed thereto', subjected to the cleaning operation during itsinovement through the machine; andiwhenthor oughly clean automaticallydischargedfrom the machine into suitable receptacles disposed for its reception. Tothe above'stated ends, the inventionsprovides:'a, liousing" to enclose a beating or agitating roll, said: housing having a perforated wall orrparti: tion screen spaced'heneath and: substantially; concentric to the roll, and: said "roll having? disposed? around? its cylindrical? surfaces -pe'-- culiarly arranged and'constructed radial agi= tating blades, whichare adapted-to bothiagi tate thc material to shake out: theldirt, etc:, as well as to propel or move the materiah toward a discharge opening-in:the end'ofi the housing: for ejection: of! the. cleanedmateriali invention isnot limiteditrr any specific; form" or embodiment,; except; in so far as specified principal object in thetlaimsappenddahenetozi 1926; Serial No. 110,134;v

The invention 7 is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 1s: a plan view of the novelhair cleaning machine, with parts thereof in horizontalsection; Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal-section thereofgeFigure 3 is a vertical cross section, taken on line 3-3 in Figure l; I Eigureais a fragn'ientary side elevation at;

one end-ofthemcans for driving the hair feeding mechanism; and Figure 5 isa fragmentary side elevationatithei opposite end of saidimeans for driving thehair'fe'eding mechanism; a a

Similar characters of reference are employed .in the above describedviews, to indicate corresponding parts; 1

Referring now to said drawings, the ref-V erence character Giindicates asuitably constructed housing, provided with any desir able form; of :supporting frame-work 7. Joui'naled' inbearings' 8, carried by the frame-work 7, is aimain shaft-9 which extends longitudinally through the interior of. said: housing :6, fromvend to end thereof. Fixed on said shaft 9 so as to be rotated thereby, and arranged to be substantially coextensivewitlr the length of the housing interior, is'a beater cylinder or drum 10. Affixed to said-cylinder or drum 10, so as to be'disposed around the same ina helical line,

extending from:one=end thereof to the oppoa site endithereof,'are a multiplicity of, radially projecting agitating-orbeater blades 11, the 'samebeingpit'ched at angles oblique to; the cross-sectional plane of the cylinder ordrum,uand-in such relation-to the direction ofrotationof-the latter as toeifect a progressive longitudinal movement of the material delivered into thehousing from one endthereof to the other as said cylinder or drum rotates and thus revolves said blades in; contact with saidmaterial within? the housing. Preferably the wallsof the housing 6 are shaped so as to be concentric'to the cylinder or dr-um 10, and spaced therethe length of the projecting agitating or heater blades 11'. so that sufiicient clearance is provided for the latter. Arranged at the lower-:end of the housing 6 and concentric mum cylinder or drum 10 and its agitating or beater blades 11, but spaced so as to-just" clear the ends of the latter, is a perforate bottom Wall, preferably inthe form of wire screen mesh 12. Removably arranged beneath said'bottom wall or screen 12 isacrefrom for a distance-but slightly greater than I ceptacle or box B to receive the dirt which is removed from the material undergoingcleansing treatment within the housing and discharged through said Wall or screen.

Said housing 6 is provided in its forward side adjacent to one end and bordering the bottom wall or screen 12 with a material delivery opening 13. Coincident with and extending outwardly from said delivery opening 13, is a suitably supported feed trough 14, in the bottom of which is mounted a movable delivery apron or endless belt 15. which runs over and between rollers 16 and '17. The roller 16 serves as a driver for said apron or belt, and is mounted on a driven shaft 18, journaled in and extending between the sides of said trough 14, which is rotated by a driving pulley 19 from any suitable source of power, or otherwise actuated as may be desirable or convenient. Cooperating with the discharge end of said apron or belt 15, and disposed above the same is a feed roller 20, which is mounted on a shaft 21 journaled in and extending between the sides of said trough l4. Disposed intermediate said delivery opening 13 and the discharge end of said apron or belt 15 are an additional pair of cooperating feed rollers 22 and 23, respectively mounted on shafts 24 and 25 which are also journaled in and which extend between the sides of said trough 14:. The

several feed rollers 24:, 25 and 20 are preferably driven from said driven shaft 18 by suitable transmission gearing. For example, fixed on said driven shaft 18 is aspur gear 26 which meshes with and drives a spur gear 27 on the shaft 24 of the feed roller 22. On the opposite end of said shaft 24 is fixed a spur gear 28 whichmeshcs with and drives a spur gear 29' on the shaft 25 of the feed roller 23. It will thus be apparent that the cooperating rollers 22 and 28 will be driven in the direction of the arrows shown in Fig ure 3, whereby they serve to progressively feed the material to be cleaned from the delivery belt or apron through the delivery opening 13 into the interior of the housing 6. Also mounted on the shaft 25 is a second spur gear 29. which meshes with and drives an idler gear 30, the latter in turn driving a spur gear 31 fixed on the shaft 21, thus rotating the roller 20 to cooperate with the apron or belt 15 in delivering the material fed by the latter to the rollers 22 and 23. The material to be cleaned may be deposited on the delivery apron or belt 15 either by hand or by the aid of any suitable auxiliary mechanism (not shown) found desirable.

Provided in the end wall of the housing 6, opposite to the end adjacent to which the material delivery mechanism is located, is a discharge opening 32 arranged at the end of the perforate wall or screen 12. Preferably this discharge opening 32 communicates with an enclosed chamber 83, which is provided with a conveyer belt or apron 34 leading from said discharge opening 32 into the interior of said chamber 33, the same running over and between the rollers 35 and hleans are provided within said chamber 33 adjacent to the outer 'end'of said conveyer belt or apron 34 for placing a suitable re ceptacle to receive the cleaned n'iaterial. As shown in the drawings, the receptacle may be in the form of a bag 37, which is adapted to be suspended from hooks 38 in open arrangement adjacent to the discharge end of the conveyer; said hooks 38 being affixed to the frame-work of the chamber in suitable locations.

The cylinder or drum 10 may be driven by means of a driving pulley 89 mounted on the exterior end of the shaft 9. Said shaft 9 may also be utilized as a source of power for driving the discharge conveyer 3 1, the driving roller 35 of which may be fixed on a shaft 40 having a driving pulley ll on its exterior end. Mounted in bearings 42 attached to the housing frame-work 7 is a lay shaft 43. Fixed on said main shaft 9 is a pulley 44; to actuate a transmission belt 4-5 engaging a pulley 46 on'one end of said lay shaft 13. On the opposite end of said lay shaft 43 is a pulley 47 adapted to drive a belt 18 engaging said pulley 41, thus transmitting actuating'power to said discharge conveyer 34.

Fixed to the rearward side wall of said housing 6 are a plurality of inwardly proj ecting comb-fingers 49 which extend toward the cylinder or drum 10 so as to straddle the off-side of said perforate wall or screw.- 12 and serve both to remove the material under treatment from the blades 11 as the latter revolve, and at the same time tend to prevent the material from being carried around with cylinder or drum, so that the same is maintained, while under agitation and movement, in contact with the said perforate wall or screen. l

In operation, the hair to be cleaned is delivered upon the delivery belt or apron 15 to be conveyed toward the delivery opening 13, the same being engaged by the feed rollers 20, 22 and 23 to be gradually and continuously fed thereby through said delivery opening into the interior of the housing 6. The cylinder or drum 10 being in motion. and rotating in the direction of the arrow at in Figure 3, causes the hair thus introduced to be moved by its agitating or beater blades 11 across the perforate wall or screen 12, said blades 11' at the same'time stirring or agitating the hair to loosen the same, thereby releasing the dirt, shorts and other foreign material therefrom for gravitation through the perforate wall or screen 12 into the dirt collecting receptacle or box B. At the same time the oblique inclination or .l t... A-.. Jams-hum this manner, while the hair is subjected'to the cleansing operation it is progressively moved through the housing 6toward the discharge opening 32. The length of the housing and agitating or beater roll is so calcu-,

lated that, by the time the hair, in its lon gitudinal progress, reaches said discharge opening 32, the same is substantially relieved of or cleansed from dirt, shorts etc. As the clean hair issues through the discharge opening 32, it falls upon the conveyer belt 34, and by said belt is carried outward for dis charge into the receptacle 37 placedat the discharge end of said conveyer belt for its reception; 7

From the above description, it' will be quite apparent, that the machine may be kept in continuous motion, while the material to be cleaned is fed thereto, so that the material will be subjected to thorough cleaning, and while being cleaned progressively propelled toward the machine outlet,

. through which it is automatically discharged when the cleaning thereof is complete.

It will be obvious that the machine is very simple, and yet performs by a mode of operation calculated to thoroughly loosen up the hair to beat out and discharge dirt,

etc., therefrom. It will also be understoodthat the machine is adapted for use in cleansing materials other than hair, as for example vegetable or animal fibers, filamentary material and the like.

As hereinabove stated, the improved clean- .delivering material for treatment ing machines is shown in the drawings in one preferred form and by way of example,

' but it will be understood that many changes and modifications will suggest themselves vto those skilled in the art without departing from thescope of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, I claim 1. A machine'of the kind described, com prising a housing, a rotatable drum longitudinally mounted in said housing, said housing being substantially concentric to said drum, said drum having a plurality of radially projecting agitating and propelling blades arranged in a helical line around its surface from end to endthereof, a perforate bottom connected with said housing to extend longitudinally beneath said drum.

and spaced to just clear the ends of said blades, said housing having on one side a site side a row of inwardly projecting comb elements coincident in length to the length lateral materialintake openingabove said perforate bottom and adjacentto one end of .said drum, said housing having at its oppoof said drum and adapted to cooperate with 4 the blades of the latter, and said housing having a material discharge opening at an end thereof adjacent the opposite end of said drum and bordering said perforate bottom.

2. A structure as specified in claim 1, in combination with means for progressively through said housing intake opening.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 12 day of May, 1926.

CARL H. BONNER. 

